Salaries of IT professionals varies from place to place, company to company, and even person to person. Living cost is also a major factor when comparing salaries. For example, same IT professional will make much more working in San Francisco compare to a small town in Pennsylvania.
The following table lists salaries published on WSJ for year 2015. Based on the data, Switzerland is the top paying country in the world followed by Belgium, Denmark, US, and UK.
All salaries are in USD.
My take: I run a software consulting firm since year 1999 based in Philadelphia (USA). I've also worked as a Software Consultant/Architect for many years. Based on our salaries and my personal experience, the above list of salaries published by WSJ doesn't seem right. Average salaries for a senior IT professional, developer, and even DBA is around $90k a year. Some companies pay little less and some pay little more. I also have some clients in New York City and average salary for NYC seems to be $125k a year.
Top 10 highest paid cities in US
- Silicon Valley $101,278
- Baltimore/Washington D.C. area $97,895
- San Diego boasts $97,328
- Boston $94,742
- Seattle $94,335
- Houston, $94,186,
- Los Angeles $92,498
- Denver $90,430
- Sacramento $90,127
- Austin $89,680
My take: I am surprised not to see New York City in the top paying cities. I've paid an average $125k a year to NYC employees and can't find IT professionals below $120k a year.
Top 10 highest paid companies in India
According to a report published by Naukrihub, Top 10 Companies Paying Highest Salary in India, the average salaries seems much lesser in India than published above by the WSJ.
Here is the list of Top 10 companies in Indian Rupees (INR) per annum.
- Google 10 lakhs
- Accenture 10 lakhs
- TCS 5 lakhs
- CTS 6 lakhs
- IBM 6 lakhs
- Infosys 3 lakhs
- Symphony 5 lakhs
- Intel 10 lakhs
- CISCO 5.5 lakhs
- Microsoft 5 lakhs
More research and details are coming soon.
Vijay BhaskarPosted Jan 31, 2016, 1:40 AM
Thanks for sharing useful information..
Joe WilsonPosted Dec 24, 2015, 2:07 PM
That's interesting .
Santhakumar MunuswamyPosted Oct 3, 2015, 5:27 AM
Good informative. Thanks for sharing
Santhakumar MunuswamyPosted Oct 3, 2015, 5:26 AM
Yes. true sir.
Afzaal Ahmad ZeeshanPosted Sep 29, 2015, 3:58 PM
From all of these average survey reports and etc. it comes out that Google is a great company to work at. I mean, their offices and allowances. I was watching a video about Google HQ and so on, it would be a great opportunity to work at their offices, with brilliant minds. :-)
Vinodh NarayananPosted Sep 28, 2015, 6:41 AM
nice share
Sibeesh VenuPosted Sep 28, 2015, 3:16 AM
Thanks for the information sir.
Ankit BansalPosted Sep 28, 2015, 12:51 AM
nice one..thanks ..
Harshad PansuriyaPosted Sep 28, 2015, 12:22 AM
Nice Share
ismail hakki senPosted Sep 27, 2015, 4:01 PM
I am working on an university in Turkey. Our junior developers salary approximately 2200 Turkish lira. Senior developers got 5000+ Turkish lira in my company. And 1 american dollar equals 3 Turkish lira. If you are a senior you got a 20000$ in a year. But life conditions is important. In my city you can rent 90m2 new house with 100$ by monthly.
Vinodh NarayananPosted Sep 27, 2015, 11:53 AM
nice share
Mahesh ChandPosted Sep 27, 2015, 10:21 AM
I’ve found too many discrepancies in salaries in India published by different websites, I am working on a detailed report that just focus on salaries of IT professionals in India. I will also break down salaries with their job title and number of years of experience.
Vijay BhaskarPosted Sep 27, 2015, 9:55 AM
These are monthly or anum....???
Mahesh ChandPosted Sep 27, 2015, 9:53 AM
Yes I agree with some comments. The WSJ salaries lists is much higher than actual pay. I've updated article with listing from more sources.
Sujeet SumanPosted Sep 27, 2015, 9:39 AM
Nice article sir. Thanks for sharing.............
Santhakumar MunuswamyPosted Sep 27, 2015, 3:02 AM
Thanks for your information sir